The consensus looks for Snap to report revenue of $157.5 million, up 306% from the $38.8 million it reported in the year-ago quarter.

However, once receipt finish seeing your snap it will delete usual. It is named as Infinity feature in the app. Instead, it was the app you used to send short-lived photos to your friends and, as alleged by horrified mothers everywhere, to sext.

These updates come a day before Snapchat's parent company Snap announces its first quarterly earnings as a public company, after debuting on the New York Stock Exchange in February. Snap stock went on to make a 41% listing gain, before closing the first trading day at an impressive one-day pop of 44%.

Another change - All tools will show up vertically along the right-hand side of the screen, a change from their previous horizontal placement. Snapchat now lets video creators decide if their videos can be viewed just once, or if they loop until recipients manually move on to the next one. Other new features include looping videos and an eraser. If you select play forever, video will start playing in loop until your friend taps to the next Snap. By tapping the scissors tool and the stars icon, users can erase something in a photo snap - like a stray piece of trash on the ground.

Another new tool, per the Times, is a custom brush that enable users to draw on Snaps with a stream of emojis.

More than 158 people worldwide use Snapchat daily (a 50 per cent rise on the number of users it had at the end of 2015), with 53m of those based in Europe and 10m within the UK.

Starting Tuesday, Snapchat is making its messages feel less fleeting by letting them replay indefinitely.

Facebook, meanwhile, has been busy adding features pioneered by its upstart rival - including easy-to-use photo filters and a way for users to create their own video stories. While Snapchat doesn't specifically note the new features like it does on the iOS version, we've confirmed they are showing up on Android.

Snapchat is up against big competition from Mark Zuckerberg's social-media empire, which launched a competing product to Snapchat Stories, called Instagram Stories, last year.

As Snapchat explained in a blog post, "We wanted to give you the option of allowing the recipient to enjoy your Snap as long as they'd like".